“I didn’t understand how I could make it work,” Syed told Global News back in December.

A visit from acclaimed French chef Pascal Ribreau convinced him otherwise. Ribreau, who is also paraplegic, had Syed join him in the kitchen to show him it was possible.

Inspired, the halal chef first started a catering business, then a pop-up restaurant.

Now, it’s The Holy Grill food truck.

Syed is set to debut what might be the first wheelchair-accessible food truck in the world. The design took some time.

“You needed a kitchen that he could move around in,” said the truck’s designer Kashif Tejani. “A lot of thing you just have to make fit.”

The lift at the back of the truck was custom-made, and takes up valuable space in the truck. All the small details in the restaurant-on-wheels had to be tweaked to accommodate someone at wheelchair-height. The truck has been in development since summer 2014.